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BASIC FORUM ETIQUETTE: PLAY NICE
Reminder: by signing up to post on the WoodenBoat Forum, you've agreed to make nice, and to comply with pages and pages of rules the lawyers wrote. It all comes down to:

HOW REGISTRATION WORKS
Click the red Registration link on the homepage, or the registration tab near the upper right. Please note: your WoodenBoat Site, or WoodenBoat Subscription, or WoodenBoat Store login/passwords do not automatically take effect here.

Approval usually happens within 24 hrs

To make your registration delay for days and days, skip the location question of City/State/Country

Approval means you'll get an email confirmation to which you need to respond, to activate the account. If no confirmation, check your spam filter.

HOW TO POST COMMENTS TO THE FORUM
It's pretty easy... we know that because there are over 3.5 million posts on the WoodenBoat Forum.
You need to be registered, and you need to be logged-in. Then you need to be "in" one of the sections, like Building / Repair. You can create a new thread, OR you can reply to an existing thread.
Click that "New Thread" icon (near the upper left) to create a new thread--as opposed to posting comments to an existing thread.
A thread refers to a series of postings. Once you are in a thread, you can't create a new thread... you can only post to it... so you click that "post reply" icon.

WHY CAN'T I SEE SOME PHOTOS?
It may be that the host of the image is no longer hosting.
If you are not registered/logged into the Forum, you might not see SOME images.
You may have "display images" disabled in your browser.

HOW TO SEE WHAT'S NEW
Hit that "What's New?" tab near the upper left of the screen. Please note: that excludes The Bilge. Of course, you can always see what's new in each Forum section by clicking into that section. Newest posts are at the top.

POSTING PICTURES

...Click the image icon when you are in the posting section

...Select From My Computer unless linking from a URL

...Click Select Files (you need to know where you stashed them)

...Click Upload Files. You'll then see a thumbnail of the image

...Click Post Quick Reply and it will post in a bigger size.

...Note: if you have a "portrait" formatted image, the software will turn it sideways. So, you can either crop the image, or, put it on a "canvas" that will make it landscape orientation. (Horizontals work, verticals get turned horizontal.)

...Images byte size should be under 90k and sized not greater than 700 x 700 pixels

...Of course, you are welcome to host your own images. One advantage is self-hosting is others will see the images even if not logged-in. For images we host, the viewer must have an account and be logged in.

...Should you have back-up of images you post? You betcha.

For a "how-to post images" series of screenshots, click Posting Images.

...There's a film icon when you're in posting mode. Click that and paste the link

...If you have your own video, the simple thing is to create a YouTube acct, upload to it, and then link, as above.

SEARCHING FOR A TOPIC
The built-in search function is LESS than stellar. Instead you might use Google's "Advanced Search" and paste http://forum.woodenboat.com into the "Search Within a Site or Domain". It's under the "Need More Tools" section.

CAN'T READ THE TYPE
In lieu of getting younger eyes, just try hitting "control" "+" to make the type larger and then "control" "-" to make it smaller again.

Put in your registration email, and answer the 'humane' verification question.
Don't ask the admin for it... we don't have it. Logins and passwords are case sensitive... so be extra sensitive to that.

Don't recall your login or password? Register anew.

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You asked for your password to be emailed, and you never got it? Most likely you have an incorrect email. Double-check your spam filters, and if nothing, register anew, carefully typing your email address.

You've been logging in for AGES, but recently it won't allow it? Try going in from our WoodenBoat homepage: www.woodenboat.com. That will probably cure it. Or, reboot, clear cache, try a different browser.

SUBSCRIBE TO A THREAD
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CLOSED THREAD BY MISTAKE
The originator of the thread accidentally hits the box titled "Close thread". Re-open by going INTO the thread and using "Thread Tools" up near the top. But, you have to be the one who created the thread.

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